Moto Learning Doujou: #4-6-2 Japanese Speaking and Writing with Moto for JLPT N5 Beginner and Intermediate level, “Present Form in future tense, Yes/No response”

①Improvement of Speaking and Writing

こんにちは。モトです。I am Japanese and I am teaching Japanese. In this series, I will share my practice way for N5 Beginner and Intermediate level learners who want to review.

If learners are studying Japanese only for JLPT as test preparation, it might be difficult to improve speaking and writing Japanese actually, because the test does not cover Speaking and Writing. Thus, we set a Goal to improve Speaking and Writing in this series while learning JLPT N5 Beginner topics.

Features and Advantages

・While using Practice Sheet, we try to remember Question and Response sentences as Dialogue to learn how to use word and grammar. (Using story or dialogues, it could be easier to remember them efficiently.)

・It is also good to partially hide some words in tables in Practice Sheet by hand to check your progress or you can also change part of words and make another sentence like improvisation music.

・After Speaking, through making your sentences, you can improve Writing. (Based on your sentences, it is good to make your Practice Sheet and play Dialogues with other learners.)

・I will apply Minna no Nihongo to speaking and writing practice that covers almost all topics introduced by Genki so Genki user can also use this series.

(I will cite English translation from the textbook as it is, or I try to translate some expressions by myself. Now I am also learning English so my translation and explanation could be not correct or not natural, sorry for that.)

②Instruction of Exercise

Before Speaking & Writing exercises, check vocabulary and grammar.

Step1 Vocabulary

To work 　　　　　　　　　　　　sigotosimasu 　しごとします

Step2 Grammar

So, Today’s grammar topic is “Present Form in future tense, Yes/No response”.

While I referred to “きょう勉強しますか。” and “はい、勉強します。”　on Page 36, Lesson 4, 練習B-8 in みんなの日本語初級Ⅰ第Ⅱ版本冊, I used same grammar pattern and wrote other sentences by combining other words like below [*1]. To make dialogue structure, based on [*1] sentences, I wrote [*2] sentence as Person B’s line. I added “[ ] My grammar interpretation”.

“☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”

A きょう　6じに　かえりますか。　[*1]

　　　kyou　 rokujini kaerimasuka

　Will you go home at 6 today?

[かえります＝go home/go back to, Long Form（LF）, present form in future tense. Because of question sentence, just putかat the end of sentence. Like we have already learned, Present form with specific time expression as adverb covers “future tense”. Thus, this sentence has “Will you” asking Today’s plan. On the other hand, if people use “present form” in a sentence with specific adverbs such as “まいにち everyday” “まいばん every night”, this sentence shows “Present form in Present tense”. In other words, “Present form” covers “Present” and “Future” tense depending on adverb and context.]

B はい、　6じに　かえります。 [*1]

hai、 rokujini kaerimasu

Yes, I will.

[かえります＝LF, present form, affirmative]

B いいえ、６じに　かえりません。 [*2]

iie、 rokujini kaerimasen

No, I will not.

[かえりません＝LF, present form, negative]

Step3　Speaking Exercise

Watch the video. You can use Speaking Practice Sheet.

Speaking Practice Video↓

https://youtu.be/j-idMeqpPOA

“Practice Sheet”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/127ilGtaTJ0wgoIzEp8EGoAdKXJlaKoyX/view?usp=sharing

Step4 Writing Exercise

(W1) Read the above “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue” between Person A and B. The Dialogue contains Grammar topic in each time.

(W2) Try to make your dialogue between Person A&B like “☆☆Basic Example Dialogue”. In your dialogue, please try to use this time grammar topic “Present Form in future tense, Yes/No response” appropriately. Millions of mistakes are necessary for improvement, so you do not have to hesitate.

N5 level learner, if you have difficulty to write Dialogue style sentence, it is OK to write single sentences with grammar topic and OK to use only Hiragana. (It is easy-to-read to make space between word and word).

(W3) It is good to ask your teacher or Japanese friends to correct your sentences.

“For Intermediate Level Learners”

(W4) See the below “☆Advanced Example Dialogue”. Like the example, try to use this time Grammar topic “Present Form in future tense, Yes/No response” at least once and make your original Dialogue. In other words, if you just use the topic at least once, you do not have to use the topic anymore and you can make your dialogue freely. It is also OK to add more Person A&B part to make longer Dialogue.

“☆Advanced Example Dialogue”

A:　きょうも18時にかえりますか。

B:　はい、今日も18時帰ります。　今日はミラーさんと映画を見に行く予定です。Aさんは何時に帰りますか。

A:　私は、残業があるので、19時まで仕事して、スーパーで買い物してから帰ります。

今日は、家ですき焼きを作るので、野菜や肉を買っていこうと思います。

So, like this, while using Today’s grammar topic, write your dialogue and if you add [ ] explanation and English translation, it will be helpful to understand and correct your sentences.

(If you have a difficulty to find out someone to correct your sentences and want to ask me to correct your sentences, check my “Moto Writing Doujou”.)

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